2014 ILDA Awards booklet

2014 ILDA Awards • November 19 • Las Vegas

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2014 ILDA AWARDS

Presented November 19 in Las Vegasat the 2014 ILDA Conference, hosted by LaserNet


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2014 ILDA AWARDS

Presented November 19 in Las Vegasat the 2014 ILDA Conference, hosted by LaserNet


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© 2014, International Laser Display Association. All rights reserved.

Cover photo: Don’t Let Go, Martin Gabco, KVANT Ltd.(rotated sideways to fit vertical format)

Second Place winner, Laser Photography category

TABLE OF CONTENTS

..............................................................Laser Safety Information! 6

..........Beams/Atmospherics Show for a Single X-Y Scanner Pair! 7

.....Beams/Atmospherics Show for Multiple Scanner Projectors! 10

...........................................................................Graphics Show! 14

............................................................................Abstract Show! 18

...........................................................Beams and Screen Show! 22

......................................................................Planetarium Show! 25

.........................................Nightclub/Disco/Music Festival Show! 28

.........................................................................Corporate Show! 32

........................................................................Live Stage Show! 35

.............................................................................Live TV Show! 38

.................................................................Edited Film/TV/Video! 41

............................................Laser Show (including Multimedia)! 44

............................................Multimedia Show (including Laser)! 48

.................................................................Innovative Application! 51

.....................................................................Laser Photography! 54

..............................................Live “Laser Jockey” Performance! 58

................................Fenning Award for Technical Achievement! 59

......................................2014 ILDA Career Achievement Award! 64

..............................................................2014 ILDA Conference! 67

....................................................................................Sponsors! 67


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LASER SAFETY INFORMATION

ILDA requires its Members to perform safe and legal laser shows. All Members submitting ILDA Award entry videos have explicitly certified that the laser effects depicted meet safety standards, as well as all applicable laser safety laws and regulations (including laws for audience scanning) in the location where the show was performed.

• Entries filmed in a studio, with no audience, can use any power and can scan anywhere, even if the original show was intended for an audience.

• However, if the video depicts an audience watching the laser show, or has lasers near performers, then the show must be safe for the audience and performers, and must comply with all applicable laws and regulations.

ILDA Awards safety review

In addition to Award entrant statements, ILDA reviews every en-try for any potential safety issues. ILDA has the right to re-move or disqualify an entry if, in our opinion, the show vio-lates or appears to violate safety standards, laws and/or regulations.

In 2014, ten out of the 175 entries had potential safety issues. ILDA wrote to the entrants, asking them to address these con-cerns. Seven of these 10 gave satisfactory answers which ap-peared to be supported by the video; for example, that a per-former had their eyes closed when the laser was in use. Three entrants did not provide satisfactory responses, so their entries were removed from judging.


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BEAMS/ATMOSPHERICS SHOWFOR A SINGLE X-Y SCANNER PAIR

Third PlaceDreamlight

Tobias Gebuhr

Design and artwork: Tobias GebuhrMusic: Leona Lewis, “Run”

The idea behind this show was to create a single scanner show with just simple basic frames. All more complex effects or dis-colorations are just created by manipulation via Beyond soft-ware features.


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Beams/Atmospherics Show for a Single X-Y Scanner PairSecond Place

BlueFelyx Kain

Felyx KainMusic: Au5 & Fractal, “Blue”

My goal was to make an interesting show using only a single laser and Moncha software.


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Beams/Atmospherics Show for a Single X-Y Scanner PairFirst Place

ExorcistLOBO

Show designer: Phillipp WendtCreative director: Alex HennigMusic: Neilien, “Tomahawk”

Believe it or not: This show is a debut production of a young student. It has been the first time for him producing an atmos-pheric beam show, not influenced by others.

Its radical and precise simplicity sometimes leaves you spell-bound, as not the show seems to interpret the music, but as it seems that lasers generate the sound. Chapeau!


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BEAMS/ATMOSPHERICS SHOWFOR MULTIPLE SCANNER PROJECTORS

Honorable MentionRush Hour

MediaLas GmbH

Idea: Dirk Baur Artist: Moritz SeiterFilmed at the MediaLas studios.Music: Woodkit, “Run Boy Run”

Originally written as a technical demo show for M-III laser soft-ware, out of the regular shows, to demonstrate the high speed multi scanner network capabilities. The demo was done with 15 projectors, all set up in one network, plus 8 RoboLas moving head mirrors, controlled via M-III DMX. There were no extra in-terfaces needed, since all projectors link directly to LAN. The final purpose is a product video for MediaLas LAN projectors.


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Beams/Atmospherics Show for Multiple Scanner ProjectorsThird Place

Arrived in FlamesDynamic Lasers

Gabe LetourneauMusic: Irving Victoria, "The Arrival"; Empire Syndicate, "In Flames Redux"

This show was made to be the start of an event, or to introduce a CEO for a corporate event. Thus its kept short and is inten-tionally over powering as to accentuate the happening of some-thing. The second half show stems off of a few original ideas that needed a home in a show. The theme for the show is a per-son reaching their breaking point. Starting by holding them-selves back, and staying passive. Until they internally break-down and they finally lose it. However reaching peace with themselves by the end.


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Beams/Atmospherics Show for Multiple Scanner ProjectorsSecond Place

InfernoLOBO

Show designer: Phillipp BeckerCreative director: Alex HennigMusic: Nightwish, “Storytime”

This show was produced as the finale for a sci-fi multimedia show, also covering critical aspects of our networked world. As such, it starts with searchlight effects from al directions, creating an oppressive atmosphere. You feel observed like like in a prison yard.

Throughout the show different effects repeatedly allude to this emotional scheme, interrupted by massive parallel arrange-ments all across a total of 18 laser projectors.


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Beams/Atmospherics Show for Multiple Scanner ProjectorsFirst Place

Mind GamesDynamic Lasers

Gabe LetourneauMusic: Savant, "Survive"

There is time for one projector, and there is time for seven but if they are going to be there, they must not be wasted. Seldom will you find opposite side projectors doing the exact same thing in this show.

The name for this show comes from my own personal problems while working on this show. Questioning myself and doubting and modifying each effect. Until deadlines were my deciding factors.


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GRAPHICS SHOW

Honorable MentionAlice in Wonderland

Lasermaster LLC

Programmer: Dmitriy LeykinAnimation: Vadim Delnov, Kirill BoychenkoProducer and concept: Alkesey ShishkovMusic: Danny Elfman, “Alice’s Theme” from Alice In Wonderland

This is our laser interpretation of the famous fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. The central idea of this show is the ILDA 2014 contest.


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Graphics ShowThird Place

The Fairy AdventuresOrion-Art Multimedia

Art director: Alexey PaninGraphics: Kirill NikitochkinMusic: V. Bogatirev, “Masha and The Bear” soundtrack

The show was created as a part of children’s performance based on the popular cartoon series. A little girl does not want to go asleep, and by magic her bed turns into a carriage, so she got the chance to go on a journey with her friends. The goal is to reach the Big City and visit the circus.


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Graphics ShowSecond Place

U Make the Difference!LOBO

Cel animation: Bella White, Christina Fink; Digitizing: Beate Schaefer, Melanie Kaufman, Stephan Wellmann, Jana Hinz; Animation: Iris Schua; 3D animator: Peter Wild;Creative director: Alex HennigMusic: Rachel Portman, “The Cider House Rules”; Two Steps from Hell, “Heart of Courage”; Sound Design, “M/O Vison”

This is the result of a astonishing story. This project started years ago and was temporarily finished as a nature show. But originally it was intended to be developed to an eco show. Thousands of cell animations have already been drawn and dig-itized and waited to be completed to a show.

Years later, a foreign correspondent (Christina) teamed up with a student (Jana) to complete the show during absence of the company's Creative Director. Two people, who were never in-volved in laser animations of any kind, left him spellbound after his return.

Not only did they complete the whole show, they re-arranged the show in three main blocks: Nature as it always has been, the negative influence of mankind and the impact anybody could


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have to solve the planet's problems. They also established a completely new, ingenious and also funny plot with a little mouse serving as a visual metaphor to show that even the smallest step in the right direction counts.

In the meantime, the former foreign correspondent became a member of our creative team and thinks about studying media arts.

In total, almost 4,000 single animation frames have been drawn, digitized and colorized for this rich and opulent show.

Graphics ShowFirst Place

Crack of DoomOrion-Art Multimedia

Art director: Alexey Panin; Graphics: Max IschekMusic: The Tiger Lillies 'Crack of Doom'

The show was inspired by the music and scenic image of “The Tiger Lilies.”


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ABSTRACT SHOW

Third PlaceGeronimo

Christopher Short

Music: The Knocks and Fred Falke, “Geronimo”

On the rolling sand dunes of the Southwest desert, a young Na-tive American man lays out his hoops and dances. Hoop danc-ing is a traditional story telling ritual. The hoops are woven into animal shapes during the dance and the hoop itself represents the circle of life, the seasons, night and day.

The dancer is Nakotah LaRance (Hopi/Tewa/Assinboin). Nako-tah is a 6-time World Hoop Dance Champion who recently toured on the Cirque Du Soleil “Totem” show. The dance video


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segments were shot at White Sands National Monument near Las Cruces NM.

The video sequences were edited in Final Cut, exported into discrete frame sequences, hand edited, and then converted to ILDA animations.

The abstracts in the show are inspired by the hoop dance and are mostly circles and patterns of circles. The motions and shapes are reflections of Nakotah's style and energy.

This show was made for an event celebrating SWAIA (South-western Association for Indian Arts) and the Santa Fe Indian Market.

[Note: ILDA removed graphics from the start and end so that this piece concentrates on abstracts. This is why the music may seem to abruptly start and end -- the original piece had smooth music flow.]


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Abstract ShowSecond PlaceCotton Eye Joe

Christopher Short

Music: Rednex, “Cotton Eye Joe”

I call this my “angry galvo” show. It's a big dizzy abstract show to ridiculous music. Swedish techno rock-a-billy. 10 out of 10 for making me laugh the first time I heard it and every time since then.

I wanted something hyperkinetic and engaging. Something to give my eyes the same pounding as my ears. Flickering lights and 3D spaces. Disorienting twists and shapes and melting lights. Some effects were inspired by 70's mood organs.

Move your butt. Get up and dance, but keep on eye on your girl. Cotton Eye Joe may steal her away.

These are primarily lissajous-based abstracts that have been cloned on the Z-axis and hit hard with color modulation and ro-tational effects.


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Abstract ShowFirst Place

Monkeyhands Strange 11Christopher Short

Music: Mark Neil, “11 strANGE Ls”

Explorations of a dimension of abstracts. Blue flames, flowers shaped by lines of flux, and giant engines powered by the drums of colliding planets.

This was an exercise in building immersive atmospheric effects. An environment of light with unknown scale and laws. Are these giant machines, or blood cells?

Layered lissajous shapes and patterns inspired from spending time on an analog console.


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BEAMS AND SCREEN SHOW

Third PlaceBaar-Openair

Lightline Lasertechnik GmbH

Music: “Glory No Longer” soundtrack

Open-air show in Switzerland for a laser manufacturer.


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Beams and Screen ShowSecond PlaceVicious Rage

LOBO

Atmospherics: Roman SchützGraphics: Christina Fink, Andreas FritzSpecial F/X: Phillipp BeckerAdaptation: Reyhan SelCreative director: Alex HennigMusic: Nightwish, “The Poet and the Pendulum”

When the industry's most-awarded designer for atmospherics claims that this production is his masterpiece and if anyone is just stunned, as this show just blows away your mind, we probably might have created something very special.

In a world, where we believed having seen anything about at-mospherics and projections, this show teaches us a lesson that there is always room for effects, never seen before.


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Beams and Screen ShowFirst Place

The Space Scout JourneyOrion-Art Multimedia

Art director: Alexey PaninGraphics: Kirill NikitochkinMusic: The Police & Henry Mancini, “Every Breath You Take”; The John Barry Orchestra, “On Her Majesty's Secret Service”

This humorous show was made for the satellite monitoring company corporate party. The chief executive appears as a space scout beholding the main events and persons on the Earth from his spaceship. But after some time he discovers that somebody from the universe beholds him.


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PLANETARIUM SHOW

Third PlaceTabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit

Planetarium Hamburg

Mirko KloweitMusic: Peter Maffay, "Alles im Leben hat seine Zeit"

The lasershow is part of the big finale of our multimedia show "Tabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit".

In this show the lasers were not allowed to play the leading part all of the time. Instead the laser should be in line with the pro-jected video at the dome and enhance it.


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Planetarium ShowSecond Place

Lichtmond RelaseredPlanetarium Hamburg

Mirko KloweitMusic: Lichtmond, "Relasered"

The show is a part of our new multimedia show "Lichtmond Deluxe." The show was designed in cooperation with the musi-cal artist Lichtmond. Lichtmond had already a lasershow in mind when they created this song.

Because of the extraordinary length of the song and because we already have lasers as a part of the multimedia show before the "Relasered" song the show starts smoothly using only a few of our projectors and playing a lot with classical lights and fog. From there the light- and laser-action is steeply rising using the whole potential of our equipment.

From the beginning of the project the show as well as the song were created having an alternation between fast parts, with a lot of laser-action and "chillout-breaks" with mellow laser parts in mind.


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Planetarium ShowFirst Place

Dark Side of the MoonCopernicus Science Center

(Heavens of Copernicus Planetarium)

Concept: Michal Krauze-Wultanski, Jan ScheinerProgrammer: Michal Krauze-WultanskiMusic: Pink Floyd, “Dark Side of the Moon” (full album)

This piece was done to accompany the classic planetarium video-show by Starlight Productions. Along with the lasers, we also used star projection and dome's cove lights for the show.


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NIGHTCLUB/DISCO/MUSIC FESTIVAL SHOW

Honorable MentionGhostland Observatory at Winter on the Rocks

Lightwave International

Laser programming: Mike DunnLaser technicians: Neal Nance, Dave FonnerMusic: Various songs by Ghostland Observatory

The band's return for a special performance at the Winter on the Rocks concert was cause to pull out all the stops on the lasers for their iconic light show. Even a blizzard couldn't stop the out-door show from going on!


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Nightclub/Disco/Music Festival ShowHonorable Mention

Electric Music Festival 2013Visual Sensation Laser Shows & Technologies

Jarosław NadolnyMusic: Position Music, “Mythical Hero (alt piano)”; Marc Petrie, “Richat”

(No description provided)


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Nightclub/Disco/Music Festival ShowThird PlacePing Pong

Dynamic Lasers

Shane MartzMusic: Armin Van Buuren, "Ping Pong (Hardwell's Ultra Music Festival remix)"

On a plane to start the tour we decided something special had to be done for this. I started this 40,000 feet in the air. Playback had to be perfectly timed live as this plays from start to finish without interruptions or adjustments.


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Nightclub/Disco/Music Festival ShowSecond Place

Sun City Music FestivalLaser Spectacles, Inc.

Laserists: Tim Walsh, James ScottMusic: Various festival DJs

The festival added lasers to their third stage to attract an audi-ence - it was farther away to one side. It worked - the beams could be seen from quite a distance! We were trying to match the energy of the various DJs playing on this stage with the la-sers, all under live control.

(no First Place awarded)


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CORPORATE SHOW

Third PlaceThe Siemens HistoryOrion-Art Multimedia

Art director: Alexey PaninGraphics: Kirill NikitochkinMusic: Two Steps From Hell, “Flameheart”

The show was created for the corporate party of Siemens company and presents the history of success.


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Corporate ShowSecond Place

New Year in LG WorldOrion-Art Multimedia

Art director: Alexey PaninGraphics: Max IschekMusic: Alan Silvestri, “Suite from The Polar Express”; Two Steps From Hell music library.

The show was created for the New Year party of LG company. In one part, the newest LG products are presented, and in another the chief executive is calling to Santa to invite him.


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Corporate ShowFirst Place

PorscheLightline Lasertechnik GmbH

Music: Soundtrack to “Glory No Longer”

This was made for the opening of a new Porsche center in Osn-abrueck, Germany.


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LIVE STAGE SHOW

Third Place Biffy Clyro

ER Productions

Laser designer and operator: Ryan HaganMusic: Biffy Clyro

40 LASE-ARRAY were rigged on the upstage truss with the fo-cus on the downstage edge. The design was specific in supply-ing the pit TV cameras with band shots surrounded by 400 beams of light. The show’s video director also used the tour’s cameras to pick up these shots, which were used on the 20mt screen upstage.

Speed is of the essence on overnight load-ins so to make our technician’s lives a little easier, 40 precisely-cut boom arms were used to hang the array at exactly the right angle. The only focus needed was the horizontal.


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Six 21W RGBB OPSL systems were used along with two GOLD SLP systems. All had the internal DMX fx which covered the audience in safe laser exposure.

Live Stage ShowSecond Place

Shakira Live at Bryant Park NYCLightwave International

Laser programming and performance: Mike DunnLaser technicians: George Dodworth, Richard Gonsalves, Mark Nath, Laurann TichnelMusic: Various songs by Shakira

International pop star Shakira gave a surprise live concert in New York City's Bryant Park. Everything for the show came to-gether very quickly with no time for rehearsals or advance pro-gramming.


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Live Stage ShowFirst Place

Prolight & Sound 2014KVANT Ltd

Laser programmer: Martin GabcoChoreographer: Milan KeresDancers: Jumbo Dance StudioMusic: Nero, “Etude”; Smoke City, “Underwater Love”; Knife Party, “Destroy Them With Lasers”

This piece was created as own presentation at the one of the biggest exhibitions of its kind in Europe. Our goal was to dem-onstrate a new way of using lasers with dance performance.


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LIVE TV SHOW

Third PlaceTotenhosen

Lightline Lasertechnik GmbH

Music: Toten Hosen, “Altes Fieber”

Performed in a live TV show. Lasers dimmed down to a safe value and the artists had a special instruction.


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Live TV ShowSecond Place

America's Got TalentImage Engineering

Designer and operator: Owen MurphyOperator: Joseph SuehleMusic: Mokhov, “Perfect Tomorrow”

America's Got Talent is NBC's reality TV darling that plays to over 10 million viewers each week during the summer season. Now into its eighth season, our team created custom looks on site with three to seven lasers that are distinctly different from each other and show the versatility of atmospheric lasers. The beams are used to extend the stage backdrop, as a dance part-ner, and doing traditional choreography.

As with any live TV laser show, special attention was paid to eliminating strobing on the camera and the configurations had to be rolled on and zoned during a 2-minute commercial break. One of the most complex set ups, for the 2013 winner Kenichi Ebina, used over 20 zones and multiple mirror bounces that had to be set during the commercial break.


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Live TV ShowFirst Place

Royal Variety PerformanceER Productions

Laser designer and programmer: Marc WebberMusic: Jessie J, “Thunder”

The concept was to use traditional lasers low down to work with the video content creating cloudy laser effects and truss mounted gratings to give a thundery feel. Four TRIPAN comno's were used with one 21W whitelight.


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EDITED FILM/TV/VIDEO

Third PlaceOblivion

Lightwave International

Laser programming: Mike Dunn

The Tom Cruise sci-fi epic uses practical lasers to create robot drones' scanning and targeting effects. Laser projectors were mounted to cranes and maneuvered at all angles to match the motions of the drones added later in post-production.


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Edited Film/TV/VideoSecond Place

Pitbull - Dr PepperLaserNet

Javier RamirezMusic: Pitbull

Two 25 watt RGB lasers were used to create a nightclub setting.


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Edited Film/TV/VideoFirst Place

Thomas PuskailerKVANT Ltd

Director: Richard RaimanCameraman: Stefan LelovicLaser programmer: Martin GabcoDancers: CreDanceMusic: Thomas Puskailer, “Don't Let Go”

Singer Thomas Puskailer presents a new video for the dance single “Don't Let Go.” The main focus of the video clip are 22 KVANT laser systems. The clip was shot directly in the KVANT headquarters.


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LASER SHOW (INCLUDING MULTIMEDIA)

Honorable MentionFuel and Energy Sector

Lasermaster LLC

Video and laser operators: Denis Vorob'ev & Aleksey Mikhaylov & Yury Simanov & Dmitriy DolgovProducer and concept: Aleksey ShishkovMusic: John Williams, “Dance of the Witches” from The Witches of Eastwick"; Thomas Bergersen/Two Steps from Hell “Archangel”

Welcome greeting for employees of "GUP TEK" company. The main idea of this multimedia project is a video installation struc-ture of power systems. And in the final scene the conductor controls the Universe and its stars from which appears the 70th anniversary logo. Real Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Timur Gorkovenko was involved in this show.


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Laser Show (including Multimedia)Third Place

The Siberian Alfa Bank Show Orion-Art Multimedia

Lasershow and video design: Alexey PaninProducer and technical director: Taras ViterCustomer: Alfa BankMusic: John Powell, “How to Train Your Dragon” soundtrack; X-ray Dog library

The show for city festival describes the history of the city. And the main sponsor is not forgotten.


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Laser Show (including Multimedia)Second Place

New Year's Eve 2013 - RomeKVANT Ltd

Creative director: Diego Labonia - Luci OmbreLaser programmer: Martin GabcoLaser technician: Maros StarostaMusic: Andrew Bayer , “Detuned”

On New Year's Eve in Rome, Italy we made very special laser scenes with use of several 20W KVANT Laser Spectrums and one strong 35W KVANT Laser Spectrum.


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Laser Show (including Multimedia)First Place

The Chapters of Glorious HistoryOrion-Art Multimedia

Lasershow and video design: Alexey Panin, Kirill NikitochkinMusic: P. Tchaikovsky, “1812 Overture”

It is one part of the historic show devoted to the main events of XIX century.


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MULTIMEDIA SHOW (INCLUDING LASER)

Third PlaceThe BankOlympic Games

Orion-Art Multimedia

Music: X-ray Dog music library

This is the introduction show for the Olympic games of bank employers.


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Multimedia Show (including Laser)Second Place

The Love ButterflyOrion-Art Multimedia

Lasershow and video design: Alexey PaninProducer: Alexander TimofeyevTechnical director: Taras ViterEvent director: Yuri Antizerski.Music: X-ray Dog music library

The show was made for the wedding party. The love feelings are presented as a butterfly, flying from boy to girl around the world.


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Multimedia Show (including Laser)First PlaceVltava LivesKVANT Ltd

Creative director: Rudo Stritecky - Art4PromotionVideo: Lukas KapinusLaser: Martin GabcoAcrobats: VertigoFirework: Tomas Petrs - Flame In StarsMusic: Magic Of Love; York, “Injection”; United We Stand, “Di-vided We Fall’

The 45-minute multimedia show, Water World was created for the Vltava river festival in Czech Republic. The show was per-formed in four cities during the last summer. More than 20,000 people have seen the show.


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INNOVATIVE APPLICATION

Third PlaceUnipol

ER Productions

Laser designer: Marc WebberInstallation technicians: Lawrence Wright & Damien Gardener

This was a corporate event where there were 50 podium/lecterns. Each podium had an iPad explaining the different fea-tures of the new building. The podiums were spread across three floors of the new building and were linked with fifty 1W blue diodes, the path between each podium was across hall-ways, rooms, over balcony's and up stairs; mirrors were used to get around. The diodes had to be battery-operated as it was impossible to run power to the podium locations. Each podium had to run for over 8 hours.


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Innovative ApplicationSecond Place

LAARIS - Laser AtmosphericAugmented Reality Interactive System

Laserman Theo Dari

Inspired by the reactions of Laserman audiences, LAARIS is a set of games and educative applications made for everybody to play with laser shapes as if they were solid.


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Innovative ApplicationFirst Place

FLUIDIC - Sculpture In MotionLaserAnimation SOLLINGER

Creation and production: WHITEvoid Interactive and Art DesignVVVV programming: Joreg Diessl, Sebastian GregorIdea and realisation of laser projection: Michael SollingerMusic: Sounddesign: Daniel Teige, Marian Mentrup

Nature is to be seen as a source of inspiration, including the dynamics of ebb and flow of life. A seemingly floating point cloud above a water pond, consisting of 12,000 translucent spheres hung on about 4,100 strings. Due to a complex com-puter algorithm the spheres are arranged seemingly randomly within the cloud. At the same time the algorithm observes the positions and projection angles of eight BLIZZARD high-power laser projectors each with integrated Lasergraph DSP controller. They send out beams exactly targeting spheres within the cloud only. Emerging lines and shapes finally form graphical composi-tions without any sweet or blind spots. Kinect cameras pick up movements from the visitors and transform them into alteration of sound and laser projection.


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LASER PHOTOGRAPHY

Honorable MentionDragon Encounter

LOBO

Performer: Philipp WendtLaser graphics and idea: Christina FinkLaser operator: Reyhan SelPhotography: Philipp BeckerCreative director: Alex Hennig

The idea for this photo came in one of the evenings, when sit-ting together for a barbecue. Philipp told us that he collects me-dieval items and owns a suit of armor. This brought Christina to the idea to do a small photo shooting with him in front of a rag-ing laser dragon.


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Laser PhotographyThird Place

Warrior of LightLOBO

Performer: Philipp BeckerLight: Dennis BoppFog and laser operator: Reyhan SelLasers: Jochen SchmidPhotography and creative director: Alex Hennig

Alluding to Paoulo Coelho's famous Book "Manual of the War-rior of Light", we created this photo by using a sword of pure laser light.

Inspired by the art of light paintings, this photo was made with a 6s exposure time, starting with drawing the actual laser shape in mid-air by a single, color-changing laser beam, followed by a short flash of blueish whitelight to make the performer visible. Subtle brightness modulations of the color-changing laser beam supports the three-dimensional look of the photo.


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Some technical challenges of this photo are not visible at first sight. It was crucial to the look of the photo, not only to create a harmonious light sculpture with a single, continuous swipe, but also to keep fog off the area between the camera and the face, as otherwise the face would have vanished completely behind the bright light sculpture.

Laser PhotographySecond PlaceDon't Let GoKVANT Ltd

Photographer: Martin Gabco

The photo was taken during the video clip shooting for singer Thomas Puskailer.


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Laser PhotographyFirst Place

RomeKVANT Ltd

Photographer: Martin Gabco

New Year’s Eve 2013 in Rome.


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LIVE “LASER JOCKEY” PERFORMANCE

Entries in the “Laser Jockey” competition were performed at the Lase-Off during the 2014 ILDA Conference, on November 18. Winners were selected by votes of those attending the Laser Jockey performance.

Third Place

Nicolas SquireLaserTech Canada

Second Place

Derek GarbosLaserTech Canada

First Place

Tim WalshLaser Spectacles, Inc.


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FENNING AWARD FOR TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

Honorable MentionStageFeed ISP and StageMate ISP

DexLogic, Dirk Apitz

Pocket-size converters that replace the ILDA ISP-DB25 and ISP-DMX cables through s t a n d a r d E t h e r n e t components and Inter-net Protocol (IP) topol-ogy to benefit from iso-lation, lossless range extension, existing net-work installations and bandwidth/throughput.

No more bulky cables, loss of analog signal quality, or fear of bro-ken wires in long multi-wire cables. All existing ISP outputs can be con-verted to datastreams and be sent across Ethernet using stan-dard IP packets. PC built-in DAC boards, USB adapters, ADAT or even the output of modified vector games -- and this without any expensive or proprietary infrastructure -- and (with some care for packet loss) even across wireless links.

Detailed information is provided in the operating manuals for StageFeed ISP and StageMate ISP and can be found at www.DexLogic.com.


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Fenning Award for Technical Achievement Third Place

Laser Ski Jumping TrackerMediaLas Electronics GmbH

A fully automated laser projection system, to display the ski jumper´s "best-to-beat" mark during jumping and landing di-rectly on the landing slope.

For years, the international Ski Jumping Federation FIS showed a so-called "virtual to-beat-line" on TV during ski jumping com-petition. This virtual line could only be seen at the main camera perspective, and only on TV, since it was only virtually added to the video stream. The jumpers and the audience at the stadiums did not see anything.

Walter Hofer, the race director of FIS, wanted to deliver a real time live view system, to display the best-to-beat line directly on the jumping hill. During the summer of 2013, MediaLas and Swiss Timing did extensive tests for visibility and feasibility. The detailed development started at Sept 2013, by producing a powerful projector, which needs to withstand temperatures of - 20 deg C, and be fully adjustable for beam size, and extremely


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wide projection size. The projector is able to project at an ac-curacy of 10cm at a projection distance of 150m. The fully re-dundant construction makes it super reliable, also during the world cup of FIS Ski Jumping competition.

At the same time, the development of the software system took place. With almost 100 parameters, like wind speeds on differ-ent parts of the site, wind directions in 3D, air temperatures out-side, temperatures in the snow, temperatures on the starting grid, speed of the jumper at starting grid, and a few other impor-tant parameters, the "best-to-beat" line can be calculated within milliseconds. A mathematical difficult 3D geometric model cor-rects the distortion from the side projection to almost 0% error. Then the information is streamed via LAN to the projector, and is accurately projected onto the landing slope.

The laser projector is placed very sidewards, either on the judg-ing tower, or on a floodlight tower. The projection distance and angle is very critical for the geometric correction, since the pro-jection surface is a fully 3D object, with curves in all three di-mensions. This problem has been solved by a complex 3D equalization.

Laser power can be automatically adapted to ambient light conditions. Scanning is synchronized to a 250Hz slow motion camera, to avoid flickering on slow motion TV pictures.

The entire system has TUV approval for laser safety.


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Fenning Award for Technical Achievement Second Place

Saturn 1 optical scanner and Mach DSP servo driverPangolin Laser Systems

The Saturn 1 is a small galvanometer-based optical scanner offering what we believe is the highest speed available to la-serists today. We have publicly demonstrated ILDA 90K at the recent Prolight & Sound tradeshow in Frankfurt Germany, and in the lab and at Photonics West, we have achieved projections with up to ILDA 120K.

The Saturn 1 is able to achieve these speeds because it offers the lowest inertia and highest torque-to-inertia ratio of any commercially-available moving magnet scanner, while simulta-neously offering a very stiff (strong) rotor construction, low coil inductance, and coil resistance well under 2 ohms.

The Saturn 1 scanner is driven by the Mach DSP servo driver. The Mach DSP is almost 100% digital, allowing users to adjust scanner tuning using an application on the PC rather than tuning potentiometers. Multiple scanner tunings are instantly accessi-ble with the click of a mouse, offering the user the capability of operating at 30K, 60K, and 90K, plus custom tunings.


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Fenning Award for Technical Achievement First Place

Compact 506 optical scannerPangolin Laser Systems

The ScannerMAX Compact 506 is a small, low-inertia galvanometer-based optical scanner capable of driving 3mm aperture mirrors at lightshow scanning speeds in excess of 50K (nearly 5kHz small signal bandwidth and 150 micro-second small steps) with no distortion, as well as being capable of driving mir-rors up to 1 inch diameter. The small size, high performance, and yet low cost of the Compact 506 have made it an instant favorite among lightshow and industrial clients alike.

The Compact 506 is constructed in a way that is completely different from the conventional moving magnet technique that was originally invented nearly 40 years ago. The Compact 506 utilizes a laminated stator with a recently-patented mag-netic circuit, along with a different rotor construction technique, and our patented high-output position sensor design.

The Compact 506 behaves differently from typical lightshow galvos in the following ways:

• The position signal is up to ten times as strong.• Torsional and bending-mode resonances are infinitely higher.• The coil resistance is 50% lower, but inductance is around

four times as high.• The torque-to-inertia ratio is around 20% higher.• There is a return-to-center magnetic spring phenomenon.• There is no rotor/mirror stop.


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2014 ILDA CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Timothy WalshLaser Spectacles Inc.

For 2014, ILDA’s highest honor goes to Timothy Walsh of Laser Spectacles, Inc.

Tim graduated with a degree in Music Composition from the University of North Texas, and has always incorporated dance, film, and video into his compositions. While an undergraduate, he got his start in lasers in 1977, as a planetarium laserist for Laser Creations, Inc. in Texas. He also co-founded Brave Combo, a Grammy-winning band still going today. In 1985, Tim formed Laser Spectacles, Inc.. Since then he has performed and installed laser shows world-wide, from churches to raves, cor-porate meetings to outdoor festivals.


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Tim approaches laser shows as an artist, passionate about get-ting the right look and achieving his unique vision. To reach his goals, he began designing and building his own laser projection equipment. He envisions the ideal show as "Laser Synaesthe-sia" -- seeing exactly what one is hearing; to accomplish this, he uses the same audio signal to control both the loudspeakers and the laser scanners. Tim is a professional musician and composes "Laser Synaesthesia" pieces to accompany his per-formances on saxophone, clarinet, Irish pipes and accordion.

Tim and Laser Spectacles have won over 28 awards, beginning with the first ILDA Awards in 1988 and continuing with First Place Awards in both 2011 and 2012 -- the only 1988 recipient still winning today. Other notable honors include "Best Laser Show" at LDI and a First Place International Festivals and Events Association award for "Best New Event.” Laser Specta-cles was one of the first two companies to receive the designa-tion "ILDA Accredited Professional Lasershow Company" in 2010.

Tim is a Founding Member of ILDA, and has been one of the most active Members through the decades. He documented ILDA’s first meeting at Lake Tahoe in 1986 with a diary and audio recording -- still available online at ILDA’s website -- and served on the first Publicity Committee. He has written many articles for "The Laserist" magazine. Tim was Chair of the Awards Committee from 1993-2000 and from 2006 to the pre-sent. He was instrumental in presenting live laser shows at the annual ILDA Awards Banquet; prior to his tenure, only videos were shown. As Awards Committee Chair, Tim oversees the Awards Categories, plans the lasers at the Banquet and organ-izes the judging of both the Artistic and Technical Awards.

Tim joined the ILDA Board in 2006, and served as ILDA Presi-dent from 2006-2011. Tim and his wife Helen hosted the very successful 2012 ILDA Conference in San Antonio, Texas, and he did this as one of the few sole-proprietor companies to have run an ILDA Conference. In 2013, Tim received the ILDA Outstand-ing Service Recognition Award, for his long and distinguished service to the association


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About ILDA, Tim says: "I am thankful to have been a part of ILDA from the start; ILDA's network of support and inspiration aids me in accomplishing my goals. I feel part of a world-wide family of laserists."

Tim's company, Laser Spectacles, is an ILDA Accredited Pro-fessional Member for 2014, and is a Founding Member of ILDA.Tim is a Founding Member of ILDA, having attended the first organizational meeting in 1986 and being an ILDA Member continuously since that time.


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2014 ILDA CONFERENCE

HostLaser Production Network (LaserNet)

Tom Harman • Christine Jenkin

ILDA Conference CommitteeChristine Jenkin, Chair

ILDA Board of DirectorsNovember 6 2013 - November 17 2014Christine Jenkin, President

Olga Eser • Dan GoldsmithAlex Hennig • Francesco van Loon

Awards PresentationTom Harman, Master of CeremoniesHoracio Pugliese, Technical DirectorTim Walsh, Awards Committee Chair

SPONSORS

Silver SponsorsLaser Production Network (LaserNet)

Pangolin Laser Systems

Bronze SponsorCoherent Inc.

Booklet and display printing donated byBrooks Palmer, FullColorLasers.com


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International Laser Display Association

2014 ILDA Awards booklet

Documents

Transcript of 2014 ILDA Awards booklet